Graphics Drivers For Windows Server

Hello!

I just installed Windows Server 2008 on my laptop to use as a "Home Server", but I'm having problems installing drivers. More particularly, I'm having problems with my graphics drivers. I know my laptop has ATI Radeon HD 5470 graphics, as well as some onboard intel graphics. I downloaded them, but I always receive an error saying my OS is not support. I tried using Windows 7 Drivers, but they also failed. I'm just trying to be able to use an external monitor instead of my laptop monitor. Any Help?

windows home server is no longer supported in any way by anyone, and was never designed to be ran with a monitor anyway. You were given trivial support of the monitor for install purposes but after that the system is designed to have the monitor removed and you are to remote-desktop into it if you need to mess with it and change all settings through a web-server interface.

Home Server 2011 is based on Server 2008 R2 and supported through 4/2016, more than a year after Win7 falls off mainstream support.

The older Home Server version based on Server 2008 went off support 1/2013 though other Server 2008 SKUs don't lose mainstream support until 1/2015.

These both work fine with a local monitor, which is fully supported. I have two of them so I know. But the OP didn't ask about the Home Server products anyway.


As far as I can tell AMD's notebook GPUs do not have drivers for server OSs though:

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx/